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One of my favourite scenes/lines from Little Britain character, Vicky Pollard She is meeting with a social worker to answer questions about the disappearance of her baby…… helps if you say the line in her character voice.

Vicky - Yeh but no but yeh but no but….

Social worker: “So where’s your baby vicky?”

Vicky: “Yeh but no but no but Carly found a pube in her lasagne, and Darren said he was gonna go to third base with Amber but that was RUBBAAASH and don’t listen to Amber. I like Amber but she ain’t my friend so you better talk to Amber but I dont know her. Anyway, I dont know nuffin’ so SHUT AAP!”

Social worker: “All I want to know Vicky is where your baby is…?”

Vicky: “Oh, I swapped it for a Westlife CD.”

Social worker: “OH MY GOD!!! HOW COULD YOU?!?!”

Vicky: “I know…. they’re RUBBAAASH!”

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I’ve had my new Nokia N73 for about a week now. The phone visually and functions wise is a dream. The camera is brilliant, the standard 128MB miniSD card storage is great (I may splurged and get a 2 gig). The multimedia player(s) are brilliant. The screen is fantastic, I’ve seen iPod’s with the same resolutions. As an MP3 player this can absolutely compete with an iPod (unfortunately MiniSD Cards do not come any bigger than 2 gig, yet!). Picture quality is as good as my digital camera. When the alarm goes off in the morning the dual stereo speakers really tell you it’s time to get up, I think my neighbours use it too!

A few not so good points.

No Wi-Fi and runs slowly when switching between applications or performing multimedia functions. On numerous occassions the phone would shut down (turn off) on me, either while I was on the phone or when on standby mode. This resulted in me having the phone replaced today and so far it’s working perfectly.

I’m sure there are many other little features to be discovered but so far this is a fantastic little phone.

Next time you have a bad day at work, think of this guy. Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an e-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 FM in Ft.Wayne,Indiana, which was sponsoring a “worst job experience” contest. Needless tosay, she won.

“Hi Sue, Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother.Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you’ve been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it’s not so bad after all. “Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job. As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It’s a wetsuit. This time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this:

We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose.Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I’ve used it several times with no complaints. What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wetsuit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It’s like working in a Jacuzzi. Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. Within a few seconds my butt started to burn. I realized what had happened.

“The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don’t have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn’t stick to it. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my butt. I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. “His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically.

Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach
the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression. When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn’t poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut.

So, next time you’re having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt. “Now repeat to
yourself, “I love my job, I love my job, I love my job.” And whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself: is this a “jellyfish bad day?”

I’ve had my current camera, a Pentax Optio S4, for about two years now. It’s compact, light and has many other features that have satisfied my pictorial needs to date but I’m after something with a little more juice.

Similar to my co-authors post in August, I find myself in the market for a new camera. I only have a few requirements and I think my mates Chris and Tim have hit the mark with their recommendations, the Olympus E-400 and the Canon 350D. However, the price does not agree with the bank balance.

So I now put to you the following challenge, find a Digital SLR Camera with similar features to the aformentioned camera’s but as cheap as chips. Also, do you think it’s worth trading in my current camera or flogging it on ebay ?